Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-30
THE NATIONAL GAME.

what the Ball Players Are Dcans Sc
Arson says Van Haltren is success.
Brill is the Wilkesbarre's winning pitchA T.
Everybody feels sorry for the Waterbur,gss j.
Beatin of the Detroits is only n1neteA
years old.
Captain Troy of the Manchesters is great
fayorite-Boston Herald.
Manager Watkins of the Detroits says that
the club directors interfere with his bust
ness.
The race for the pennant is now very ex-
citing. Arson is growing nervous, as Clark
sons arm is giving out.
Rainey, the New York's new third base
man, first began to play ball in Birmingham,
little village in Michigan.
Manager Gafney of the Washingtons is
now sorry probably because he recalled
Southpaw Keefe of the Hartfords.
Titeomb and Murphy have played their
last game with the Newarks and hereafter
will be one of the batteries for the New
Yorks.
Tony Mullane has great success against the
Nets In the last three games he has pitched
| against them on the Cincinnati grounds the
| scores have been 20, so and 30.
| The players of the Metropolitan club are
among the largest men on the diamond The
| average height is Oft 101sin. and the aver
weights: Orr 212, Ryan 1913, Roseman 1874,
Lynch 100, O'Brien 1873, Hankinson lib,
somers 1888, Gerhardt 159, Radford 143,
Jones 202, Helbert 1877, and Cushman 1T.
Tony Mullane is ready to make a match
| with any of the ambidextrous throwers in
| the country. He thinks he can throw as far
| with his left hand as any man in the associa-
| ton who is not naturally left handed
thrower His challenge is directed to Rob
inson of the Browns and Chamberlain of the
Louisvilles. who are both ambidextrous
throwers.
George Leitner, who is pitching great ball
for the Indianapolis club at salary of $225
per month, was born in Piermont, Rock
land county, N. Y, twenty-one years ago.
prominent shoe merchant of that place.
George ia graduate of st. Johns college,
Fordham, N. Y, and will graduate as an
NJ. D. from Bellevue hospital, New York
city, March next. He speaks German,
French, English, Latin and Greek. Previ-
GUS to his signing with the indianapolis he
was a member of the Nyack IN. W club.
EARLY this season he accomplished the feat
of striking out in a regular game twenty one
men.
The Brotherhood of Base Ball Players will
have the sympathy and support of every lover
of the game in its efforts to assert the man
hood of these players. No wonder they re-
voted against D61nR treated as cnaGGelS. Inc
idea of a man like John M. Ward, LII. B.,
being bought and sold, without the right of
protest, like race horse! And when it was
proposed to sell the services of James
O'Rourke, LII. B., he resented it like a man
and lawyer. Besides, the brotherhood has
taken good step in frowning upon the beer
guzzlers and rum drinkers, who have spoiled
many game and ruined many aspirations
for the championship. No drunkards, no
gamblers, no chattels That is the motto of
the brotherhood, and isn't it good one?-
Evening Sun Editorial.
Manager Phillips of the Pittsburgs says he
is hampered in his work by President MINI
lex. Had he been allowed to run the nine
as he thought best, the team would have
made better showing.
The number of balls pitched in game has
been subject Of stndy to Professor Martin,
of Louisville, and he is keeping register.
In recent game Ramsay had total of 1876
| balls, an average of Is in each inning. Null
lane pitched al balls, or an average of 1755s
| each inning, the Louisvilles only going to
bat in eight innings. His average for each
man who went to the bat was 4. 1-35 balls,
while Ramsay's average was 3.15-16. The
| work done by both pitchers was remarkable,
however, as only one man was given his base
| on balls-that by Hecker. In an average
| game the number of balls pitched is more
than 200.